Tina Haim-Wentscher

Tina Haim-Wentscher was born in 1887 in Constantinople, the daughter of Serbian merchant David Leon Haim and his Italian wife Rebecca Mondolfo.

The family came to Vienna[1] and in 1893 to Berlin,[2] where Tina Haim studied sculpture at the Lewin-Funcke-School in Charlottenburg in 1907 and 1908, and then ran her own studio.

With the outbreak of World War II, the couple was deported in 1940 as "Enemy Aliens" to Australia, where they were interned until 1942 in Tatura, Victoria.

Heinrich Schäfer, director of the Egyptian Museum, greatly appreciated the works of Tina Haim.

[6] Tina Haim-Wentscher together with her husband designed the artistic decoration of the Malaysian pavilion for the Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938 in Glasgow.